Someone's selling a Flappy Bird–ready iPhone on eBay for $99,000

After Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen followed through on his decision to pull Flappy Bird from both the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace, fans with the game installed are attempting to cash in by listing their phones on eBay.

Just hours after the game was taken down from the App Store on Sunday, iPhones with Flappy Bird installed began appearing on eBay, listing the “rare” game as the reason for their high starting prices. One used iPhone 5S has reached almost $100,000 in bids, making an iPhone with Flappy Bird installed almost as expensive as a pristine condition vintage Porsche. An eBay search for ‘Flappy Bird iPhone” lists 1,620 results, almost all of them are used iPhones being sold with the game installed.

Flappy Bird was the first success for the low-profile Vietnamese game developer Dong Nguyen, who created basic games largely by himself. When Flappy Bird began to rocket up the App Store charts, he expressed concern that people were overusing his game.

Following his announcement that the game would be removed from the App Store, Nguyen has remained silent, sending no tweets. Angry Flappy Bird fans, believing that their games would stop working, threatened to kill the developer unless he restored the game to the App Store.

@dongatory Fuck you asshole, I'll fucking kill you if I have to. Put back Flappy Bird on the market or I'm afraid I'll have to meet you.

Other social media users keen to monopolize on the hysteria surrounding the removal of Flappy Bird have created fake accounts for the game’s developer, urging Twitter users to retweet them to help bring the game back.